Britain’s Danny Kent bagged fifth place in today’s Moto3 race at the Sachsenring MotoGP round after being in a race-long scrap for the final podium spot with Alex Marquez and Aleix Masbou while Jack Miller took a lights-to-flag win.
Kent qualified in fifth place and despite some early charges into a rostrum position just didn’t have the outright pace to live with series leader Miller and Brad Binder, who took second at the chequered flag.
Marquez and Masbou just got the better of Kent in the final few laps but the Husqvarna rider has showed he has lost nothing as a result of his disaster year in Moto2 and is able to battle at the front.
"It definitely has been our best weekend of the season and our best race. At Assen we took a step forward and here we have started from where we left off there, taking another step forward. I'm very happy with how the weekend has gone, and we were much closer to the winning rider at only one second behind," said Kent.
"It's good for my confidence, because it shows that I can be up at the front. We now have three weeks off, so I will go home and work hard on my fitness to be even stronger in Indianapolis. I will try to get that podium that we were so close to today. We have to continue working in this way and step by step we are getting closer."
Saxoprint’s John McPhee put in a sterling ride to go from 27th on the grid after being promoted a place to ride through to seventh, finishing just behind team-mate Efren Vasquez. The Scotsman had a tough qualifying session but put in a world class first lap to carve through 15 riders to get on terms with the second pack.
